Cinema has long had a love affair with Paris. From iconic Hollywood forays around the Seine featuring Marlon Brando or American werewolves, to a Russian social satire following a cat’s window linking St. Petersburg to the Eiffel Tower, there’s no shortage of films portraying different kinds of visitors from this iconic city.
Also, there are many different ways to visit the city in real life.
the independent tourist
One of the attractions of staying in French hostels, as opposed to hotels, lies in their “do it yourself” feel. You feel less detached from the authenticity of life on the streets, which can certainly appeal to the independent tourist. The city is so full of easily accessible cultural delights and hidden gems just waiting to be discovered, so staying cheap and wandering around on your own is a great way to get a feel for this incomparable place.
The culture investor
The culture of Paris is world-renowned; there are few people in the world who have no idea what to expect from the people and fashion of the city. Many people travel here with the express purpose of drinking heavily from the cultural wells of this ancient but, at the same time, truly modern city. The cultural investor is the traveler who avoids galleries and museums and takes snapshots of the Eiffel Tower and the Bastille; For them, the French hostels in the city give them the opportunity to meet a variety of international visitors and locals who can give them a more multicultural view of this iconic metropolis.
The adventurous visitor
Many popular images of the City of Love reflect grandeur, class, and high culture. But this is a city with too diverse a history and too broad an energy to be so simplistically defined. French hostels across the country, and especially in the capital, can give you a taste of France at its edgiest, rawest and, in some ways, most authentic. The adventurous visitor wants to get their hands dirty. Rather than cloister themselves in the artificial setting of a luxury hotel, they embrace the real Parisian experience, the complexity of traffic, little-visited suburbs, and the stories behind the roads less travelled.
the natural explorer
Some people may think of a resort in the Bahamas when they think of their ideal vacation, while others may think of a trek to Everest. The natural explorer may not immediately see the French hostels in Paris as an ideal destination, but in fact the city’s boulevards are surrounded by several large parks, many of which are of enormous historical importance. In the Bois de Bologne and the Bois de Vincennes, nature lovers will not find lions, tigers or bears, but they will be able to enjoy both the well-cared gardens of the Jardin des Tuileries, the Jardin des Plantes and the Jardin de Luxembourg as well as the wild open spaces anywhere else in the world.